Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation

The Diploma programme has been initiated to address the inadequate number of skilled people who can carry out M&E activities appropriately and successfully. This follows the decision by Government to introduce the  M&E officers in Planning Departments in both Ministries and autonomous Departments and Government Agencies. Also, there is an increase in the demand for M&E function in NGOs and private sector organisations. Private sector actors have also begun to conduct development projects through their Corporate Social Responsibility programmes. These are contributing to an increased demand for quality assurance (QA), standards and compliance, results-based management and data collection. Taken together, they have increased the number of positions required to conduct M&E. The Diploma programme is therefore being started to train M&E personnel in-order to address inadequate number of skilled people who can carry out M&E activities appropriately and successfully. Experience has shown students enrolled in the course lack basic skills in M&E. Moreover, the postgraduate course was designed to equip senior M&E managers, organization executives and consultants with conceptual and theoretical foundations in M&E. The Diploma course on the other hand has been designed for junior officers or people intended to take supportive function in M&E such as data collection, supervision of fieldwork and data entry/analysis.

The Diploma course is also initiated to fulfil Out’s mandate to provide foundation courses needed to transition from secondary/tertiary to university education. This will present a path for students who did not achieve the required pass-mark for direct admission to Bachelor programme to obtain a Diploma and transgress to Bachelor and then MA M&E

Upon successful completion of the programme, the student is expected to demonstrate:

Ability to formulate indicators for the purposes of measuring project outcomes, goals/objectives, outputs, activities and sub-activities

Ability to develop a SMART and coasted evaluation work breakdown structure (WBS)

Ability to operate M&E/MIS systems especially database management

Ability to make effective use of internet/online search engines, e-libraries and online repositories such as creative commons/Research Gate

Ability to function as administrators of phone-based and create online/e-mail questionnaire surveys

Ability to conduct data analysis through excel

Skills for effective leading and management of evaluation teams in conducting data collection fieldwork

Relevant skills for effective Research/Evaluation Field Management Protocol

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The programme requires the completion of 90 credit hours. The type of study for this programme is Coursework  which means students has to complete all the core courses before registering for Graduation

PROGRAM: DIPLOMA IN MONITORING AND EVALUATION

FACULTY: SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

DURATION: 3 YEARS

Note:

Industrial attachment is a mandatory unit for students taking Undergraduate Programs in school of Business and Management, school of Agriculture, school of humanities and social sciences and school of Education.  The unit draws an extra fee of ZMK 2,500

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